Have you ever seen a chili pepper drying in one of Xinjiang's "famous scenes"? Although the harvest season is over, the red color must still be vividly remembered.
What is it like to see the red "color number" in Xinjiang from a satellite perspective?
Here is an image comparison map from the Jilin No. 1 satellite recently released in Anjihai Town, Shawan City, Xinjiang, which takes us to relive the "famous scene" of Xinjiang dried with peppers from the perspective of the sky.
Source: Jilin No. 1 WeChat public account
National Highway 312 passes through this place, and patches of dried red peppers can be seen everywhere in the open space on both sides of the road. As the hometown of red peppers, Anjihai Town has a long reputation, which is located in the central and western parts of the economic development belt on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang, with superior soil conditions, sufficient sunlight, rich heat, long frost-free period, and large temperature difference between day and night, which is very suitable for growing peppers.
One after another, stretching for several kilometers, the scene is magnificent. Around the makeshift factory building, a large area of fiery red peppers is covered in the drying field, and pepper farmers and transport trucks are busy collecting dried peppers and bagging them for transportation.
Since the 1970s, Anjihai Town has begun to grow peppers, planting an area of about 50,000 mu, there are more than 20 varieties, the annual output of fresh peppers is more than 120,000 tons, the planting area accounts for one-tenth of the whole Of Xinjiang, peppers sell well throughout the country, and half of the income of local farmers comes from peppers.
With plenty of sunshine and a suitable climate, xinjiang produces excellent quality peppers, which are indispensable elements in making food, and some of them can be used to refine pigments and make lipstick!
Source: CCTV News